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 Definite and Indefinite Free Choice Items: Evidence from English, French and Greek
Evangelia Vlachou
150-159 (complete pdf)
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This paper attempts to explain the reason for which some Free Choice Items (FCIs) are presuppositional whereas others are not. It is argued that this difference is due to a very strong inherent semantics, cluster of quantificational properties and semantic implications. Evidence is given from novel data from English, French and Greek indefinite and definite FCIs.


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Proceedings of the 2004 Texas Linguistics Society Conference: Issues at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
edited by Pascal Denis, Eric McCready, Alexis Palmer, and Brian Reese

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ISBN 978-1-57473-417-1 library binding
v+159 pages
publication date: 2006
published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA
Printed edition: $180.00
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